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Contraception and abortion in nineteenth-century America

by: Brodie, Janet Farrell

Publication date: 1994

Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press

Collection: marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana; inlibrary; printdisabled

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Item Size: 1.0G

xviii, 373 pages : 24 cm

Drawing from a wide range of private and public sources, examines how American families gradually found access to taboo information and products for controlling the size of their families from the 1830s to the 1890s when a puritan backlash made most of it illegal. Emphasizes the importance of two shadowy networks, medical practitioners known as Thomsonians and water-curists, and iconoclastic freethinkers

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-365) and index

Introduction -- Story of love and family limitation: "X" for sexual intercourse -- Strategies in Colonial America -- "New" reproductive control -- Private debate goes public -- Antebellum public audience: who were they and how did they find out? -- Boom in self-help literature after 1850 -- "Most fashionable" contraceptive devices -- Criminalizing reproductive control: End-of-century campaigns to disempower women